Decision Science News readers know about Hal Hershfield and Dan Goldstein‘s experiments in which they exposed people to interactive virtual-reality movies of their future selves to see how it would impact their saving behavior (pictured above). The idea was sent up in three Saturday Night Live fake commercials for Lincoln Financial (hat tip: Jake for alerting us). The SNL interactions with the future self were a lot more awkward than ours, but maybe that’s a good thing for changing behavior.